 Am I right? Good morning, everybody. It's another day, we're in the backyard. Right on schedule. It's gonna be a good day. We've had a very mild fall so far. It's actually been pretty nice. Winter starts on the 21st, and it doesn't even feel like it's getting close yet. I mean, it sure looks like it is to most of you, I'm sure, but believe me, this is still something nice, well, I sorta wanna go to the beach. One scoop. Two scoop. Three scoop. Do you like the size of my scoops? Very impressive. Four scoop. I like it to knock my pants off, so. Another scoop. What was that, five? Five scoop. Okay, coffee. Coffee, coffee. So I don't know yet what we have planned for today. We're gonna go out, get out of the house a little bit. Yesterday we stayed inside all day, so today I wanna sorta just get out and explore this a little bit, and we'll see where life takes us. We have something very important to talk about. Look at me, look at me in the eye, soldier. No, you gotta keep looking at me in the eye. Me in the eye. You have some explaining to do, man. People are starting to call you out for your crazy stories. People are starting to wonder if these are true. I don't wanna talk about it. All right, I was in the war, the milk bone war. It's all trade. Well, Diesel and I figured we'd go for a bit of a drive today, get out of the house, get a little bit of fresh air. If you was going on on this beautiful Saturday, it's only minus two outside. So it's not that cold, you know, it could be a lot colder. Most December's have been a lot colder than this, and what's weird is I saw that Oklahoma and Kansas got a whole bunch of snow the other day. I think they flipped weather systems with us. I'm kind of okay with that. We have friends down in Southwest Kansas and I saw pictures on Facebook from around their area there and how much snow they got. I don't know if that's normal for them to get that much snow, but I guess every year is different. You know, some years we get a lot of snow here. Some years we got barely anything. I can still remember having a brown Christmas not too long ago, no snow at all. And then there was the Christmases in other years where we had like four feet of snow. Doesn't matter what the weather does, people are gonna say that something bigger than that is happening, you know? I don't know what's going on. That's my motto nowadays. I have no idea what's going on. I'm just trying to get through life one day at a time. That truck is almost exactly like mine, except he's got the lift kit on it. Maybe one day we'll get our lift kit for this truck, but I'm in no rush. I like the way the truck is now. Nowadays I'm just like, you know what? I think the engineers that built these vehicles knew what they were doing. And I think that they put every piece together so that it works exactly how it was intended to work. You know, you start adding modifications and aftermarket parts and pretty soon you got other problems that you wouldn't have had otherwise, you know? I wouldn't mind having a leveling kit and exhaust on my truck, but I think that's about as far as I'd go. I mean, I can't say for sure. Maybe my mind will change. My mind seems to change all the time. Nah, I've never put a big lift kit on my truck. First of all, it avoids all the warranty that you have left on the truck. And second, I don't know. I just feel like I could find different ways to spend my money. My balloon minort is getting traffic lights. Whoa! Wow, this place is moving up in the world. Look at that, they got a new sign. They got new traffic lights. These are much needed already. Come on, bud, go. There you go. Put that forward in gear. That is really awesome. Man, Neverville got some lights. Blumenort got some lights. Wow! Diesel, Southeast Manitoba. We are happening now. Yeah, Blumenort, Manitoba. All right, where this Peterbilt dealership is, or I don't know if it's a dealership, but they got a big Peterbilt sign anyways. Used to be PBX. I'm not sure if it still is or not. I think so. I see they're adding on there. It is still PBX, Peterbilt. So, are they a dealership? Mr. Ford wants to go check it out too. Okay, here's this cab over we were looking at the other day anyway. I just wanna go take a look at it again. Pretty sure it is for sale. See, they got this big Peterbilt sign here, but I don't see any. I mean, I guess there's a few new pizza over there, but you mostly use trucks here. This guy here, he's got that lift axle in the front there. He's looking pretty rough. See, that's one reason I don't like steel rims. You can rust out like that. But it happens, right? It happens. Here she is. She is for sale. Love to go inside and take a look. From what I could gather from the comments section, a lot of you guys are interested in Caboverse 2. I'll see if I can lift you up. Can you see in there? Most of you said the same thing I always think whenever I see a cab over. You know, when you're driving a cab over, you're always the first one to the scene of the accident. And it is a pretty rough ride because your steering axle is right beneath your seat. But I do have a question for you. Your truckers out there, maybe livestock haulers. Are any of you livestock haulers? Do you like it? Are you home pretty often? I know you guys usually drive pretty nice trucks. I mean, the bull haulers are always the ones flying down the highway at 110, right? There's a big company here in Blumenort that hauls cattle and pigs called Steve's Livestock. And they're very well known. I believe they're the largest, largest livestock hauler in Western Canada. Like don't quote me on that, I'm pretty sure anyways. They're not the only one here either. I mean, there's also high life based at a little brokery. Both have really good reviews and people seem to really love working for them. This trailer's blue. Why is this one blue? I guess the amount of work that goes into it. I know it's like, it's a lot more work than just hauling dry vans, that's for sure. But I'd love to hear from actual livestock haulers what you guys think of it. Not necessarily considering doing it myself, but I mean, it's always an option, right? This is their wash bay here. This is a huge complex. But you know, they usually, I believe, are home every few days. I don't know, that's why I'm asking you guys, how often do you guys get home? I know I don't really need to keep repeating myself that I've sort of felt the need to be home more recently. But at the same time, you know, a trucker's a trucker. We're always truckers. And I'm always looking for options and opportunities where I can still drive, yet still be home. I'd like to be home every night, but honestly, being a truck driver, you know that that's not always possible. I mean, you're usually gone for at least a couple of nights, right? Someone told me once that livestock hauling, you usually go on about two to three nights at a time. See, if I can have my weekends at home, like even hauling grain and feed, like there's a company in the style I can call grain, and they get their drivers home most weekends, that would even be all right, you know? It's just then I can't take diesel with me, especially if I'm hauling livestock. Can't take diesel, because they don't allow dogs in the trucks at that time, or at that point. It's health and safety, food and health safety regulations. So these are the streets of Bloomingort, or Bloomingort for the civilized people. It's a really nice town, small little Mennonite heritage town, near Steinback. Spent a lot of time. Well, that house I showed you last time, like last week, my house where I grew up, was just a little ways down the road from here. So I spent a lot of time in town here. I had a lot of friends in town here. Pretty much my best friends all lived in this area at that time. And then I started going to school in Winnipeg. It's a little quiet community. A lot of truckers, a lot of truckers in our area, in our area, in the Southeast, for the most part, a majority of people are a large amount of people. Either you're a truck driver, or you're a farmer. Those are your two big options. There's a whole bunch of other jobs and stuff as well. But those are your big options. So tempting to do a fishtail, so tempting I held myself back. I was a good boy. So I do want to hear from you truckers that are home on a more regular basis. Like, I guess what I'm mostly tired of is not having a set schedule. Like, I want to be able to tell people, yes, on the weekend and this date, I'll be there. Oh, you're getting married on this date, I'll be there. Oh, you want to get together for a barbecue on this date, I'll be there. You know, I don't want this. I'm tired of having a schedule that's not for certain. That was one of the big reasons I'm changing things up. So if you have a job driving a truck, doesn't matter where you're from, what kind of stuff do you haul? What kind of work do you do? Where you can be home on the weekends or like, regular. Maybe dedicated routes. Maybe that would work. I've never had a dedicated route before. Or maybe you do something locally. So Blue Menor is behind me right now. Stuffed my left and behind me. I used to ride my bike down this road all the time to go to school. Cause the house where we lived is a mile down here right where that truck is. The fisheye lens is too far away, you can't see it. But about a half mile down from here, you turn right and you go down that road for a mile and you get to our old house. So it would be about a two mile bike ride for me to get to school. And sometimes my mom would bike with me to school to make sure I got there safely. And then bike home and then she'd bike all the way back at the end of school to bike back home with me to make sure I got home safe. So she'd do it twice in a day. Wouldn't do that every day, but I still remember that. That was so much fun. And the main highway is just off to our right over there. So this highway was always nice and quiet for us to bike down, right? We always had this old Friesen Driller's tower. Friesen Driller's moved into Steinbeck now, but this is where their headquarters used to be. And this tower was always our landmark. It's a turn east at the Friesen Driller tower. Now it's something else, but they left the tower there with the F fell off at one point. Hope it didn't hit anybody on the way down. Now it says reason, turn right at the reason tower. I guess in English it would be the Reisen, but in German when you have IE it makes an E sound. So like reason, unless if it's like Reimer, then it's EI makes an I sound, Reimer, Friesen. See, IE in German would make an E sound and EI makes an I sound, Reimer, EI, Friesen, IE. Then we go across the street here, carefully crossing the big highway, and a mile down here is where we lived. I guess now everyone here picks their mail up here on the right, but back in the day, they would bring the mail right to our driveway. That was always nice. Look at me, always got the nicest trucks. Is there a lot of money in bull hauling and pig hauling? Cause it seems like whenever you have a bull hauler coming up with you, they got like a thousand chicken lights and a nice long hood on a 389 or a W900, they always have the nicest trucks and they're always driving so fast. So are they on like a tight time schedule? Or why are they going so fast? Slow down a little on a sea of fancy trucks. Whenever you see a big truck coming up in your mirror and you see them coming up hot, guaranteed 95% chance it's a livestock truck. They're always just hauling everywhere they go. Chas giving her. Why? What's the rush? Must be nice. I guess because the livestock haulers out here, they don't go into Ontario. Because if you go into Ontario, you're limited to 105 kilometers an hour. You have to have your truck governed, that's 65 mile an hour, and go back to the same thing. So even if you come visit, if you're coming up from the US, your truck has to have a limiter on it, 65 mile an hour, or you're getting a big ticket if you get caught. You get pulled into the first inspection station, they'll plug in and if they don't see a speed limiter on there, boom, you're getting a ticket, you're getting shut down right there. You got to call the mechanic to come do a service call and put a limiter on your truck right there at the scale. So a little heads up for you, a little friendly heads up. Another truck driver there. Looks like he's just getting home. Lot of truck drivers in this area. I always enjoyed those routes. You know when I went back on Drive-In, talking about how I missed those routes, I really do. I love going out there, I just, I hate that it takes me away for so long, you know? But yeah, if you want to do the job, you just got to suck it up, right, and just get it done. Or just because I love the job, doesn't mean that I don't love other things in my life more. But I'll probably be hopping back in a truck in the new year, if not sooner, but probably in the new year of January and February. I'm not sure which truck or what I'll be hauling, but I have a feeling that you can't keep this trucker out of a truck. I've just got to find a truck that gets home a little more often, that's all. It's hard because local jobs, they usually do pay less. That's the balance you got to find, right? You want to be home more and you're going to get paid less, usually. You want to be gone more, you want to explore, you want to see the continent? Well, you're probably going to get paid more. But I've seen the whole continent, I've seen everything, I loved it, I had a lot of fun doing it, but I think it's just that season in my life where I just want to be home a little bit more. And I think in the new year, when it's December now, January, beginning of February, I'll probably hop back in a truck. Maybe I'll haul grain. But today I want to know about livestock hauling. Is that something I should look into seriously? Is that something that would be a good career for me? Would that be something that would get me home more often and is it enjoyable or is it miserable? I mean, you guys usually do get to drive some pretty nice trucks. I want to know. I know there's a couple of you in my comment section there. Let me know how you like it and if you don't like it, let me know why. And give me the pros and cons of livestock hauling. I'm going to go through the comments and see what you guys have to say. Maybe we'll go towards that. So I'll see what you guys have to say and maybe tomorrow we can make a video sort of centered around all of the pros and cons that you guys have shared with me about livestock hauling and we can dive into it a little bit deeper. Speaking of weather though, look at this. The snow is all melting. What is it today? December something? December 5th, 2020. The snow is all melting on the road, plus two outside. That's amazing. That's probably what, 40 Fahrenheit somewhere in there? And this isn't our coldest month yet. You got to remember January, February are our coldest months. Usually second week, the last two weeks of January, first two weeks of February are the worst. There it usually gets down to about minus 50 for a couple of weeks. And it really tests out how much you love Manitoba. And all the people who can't handle it, well, have fun in Toronto or Vancouver with all the expensive housing. Check this out, a cab over.